Sjoerd W Bijleveld

My hardware midi instrument (Kurzweil K2500R) does send (when requested by a sysex message) the contents of its LCD screen, which are 8 lines of text and each line holds 40 characters, so in total 320 characters. In Max I do receive this text as a bunch of decimal values. So I can't use 'itoa', because 'itoa' is limited to 256 items. Is there a way around this limitation, so I can convert all the decimal values to ASCII text?

My hardware midi instrument (Kurzweil K2500R) does send (when requested by a sysex message) the contents of its LCD screen, which are 8 line

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Hello, did you find a solution for this problem of limit of 256 in the itoa object?

Thank you! I can't get it to work with your patch. Here is mine if you manage to do something to have more than 256 items.

            "box" :             {

                "maxclass" : "message",

                "numoutlets" : 1,

                "id" : "obj-62",

                "outlettype" : [ "" ],

                "patching_rect" : [ 42.272558353390082, 412.644408964878096, 27.750220904761932, 22.0 ],

                "numinlets" : 2

                "text" : "l 1 -100000 -100000 2 -100000 -100000 3 -100000 -100000 4 -100000 -100000 5 -100000 -100000 6 -100000 -100000 7 -100000 -100000 8 -100000 -100000 9 -100000 -100000 10 -100000 -100000 11 -100000 -100000 12 -100000 -100000 13 -100000 -100000 14",

                "linecount" : 2,

                "id" : "obj-24",

                "patching_rect" : [ 135.272558353390082, 57.644408964878096, 1307.0, 35.0 ],

                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                "text" : "atoi",

                "id" : "obj-15",

                "outlettype" : [ "list" ],

                "patching_rect" : [ 54.272558353390082, 188.367629964878063, 100.0, 22.0 ],

                "numinlets" : 3

                "text" : "t b",

                "id" : "obj-12",

                "outlettype" : [ "bang" ],

                "patching_rect" : [ 158.426719555555621, 245.367629964878063, 40.0, 22.0 ],

                "numinlets" : 1

                "text" : "zl.change",

                "numoutlets" : 2,

                "id" : "obj-11",

                "outlettype" : [ "", "" ],

                "patching_rect" : [ 54.272558353390082, 219.367629964878063, 100.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "append 10",

                "id" : "obj-8",

                "patching_rect" : [ 54.022779258152013, 245.367629964878063, 100.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "p momentary",

                "id" : "obj-40",

                "outlettype" : [ "", "bang" ],

                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                "fontname" : "Arial",

                "patching_rect" : [ 216.942693853390097, 346.610168000000044, 81.0, 22.0 ],

                "numinlets" : 1,

                "patcher" :                 {

                    "fileversion" : 1,

                    "appversion" :                     {

                        "major" : 8,

                        "minor" : 2,

                        "revision" : 1,

                        "architecture" : "x64",

                        "modernui" : 1

                    }

                    "classnamespace" : "box",

                    "rect" : [ 656.0, 161.0, 168.0, 335.0 ],

                    "bglocked" : 0,

                    "openinpresentation" : 0,

                    "default_fontsize" : 12.0,

                    "default_fontface" : 0,

                    "default_fontname" : "Arial",

                    "gridonopen" : 1,

                    "gridsize" : [ 15.0, 15.0 ],

                    "gridsnaponopen" : 1,

                    "objectsnaponopen" : 1,

                    "statusbarvisible" : 2,

                    "toolbarvisible" : 1,

                    "lefttoolbarpinned" : 0,

                    "toptoolbarpinned" : 0,

                    "righttoolbarpinned" : 0,

                    "bottomtoolbarpinned" : 0,

                    "toolbars_unpinned_last_save" : 0,

                    "tallnewobj" : 0,

                    "boxanimatetime" : 200,

                    "enablehscroll" : 1,

                    "enablevscroll" : 1,

                    "devicewidth" : 0.0,

                    "description" : "",

                    "digest" : "",

                    "tags" : "",

                    "style" : "",

                    "subpatcher_template" : "",

                        }

,                         {

                            "box" :                             {

                                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                                "text" : "delay 80",

                                "linecount" : 2,

                                "numoutlets" : 1,

                                "id" : "obj-80",

                                "outlettype" : [ "bang" ],

                                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                                "fontname" : "Arial",

                                "patching_rect" : [ 11.0, 67.123383000000004, 41.0, 35.0 ],

                                "numinlets" : 2

                            }

                                "text" : "sel 1",

                                "numoutlets" : 2,

                                "id" : "obj-81",

                                "outlettype" : [ "bang", "" ],

                                "patching_rect" : [ 11.0, 39.5, 55.751682000000002, 22.0 ],

                                "maxclass" : "button",

                                "bgcolor" : [ 0.692156, 0.657535, 0.617954, 1.0 ],

                                "id" : "obj-1",

                                "parameter_enable" : 0,

                                "blinkcolor" : [ 0.215478, 0.440638, 0.918583, 1.0 ],

                                "outlinecolor" : [ 0.215478, 0.440638, 0.918583, 1.0 ],

                                "patching_rect" : [ 51.124161000000001, 67.123383000000004, 13.875838999999999, 13.875838999999999 ],

                                "numinlets" : 1

                                "maxclass" : "inlet",

                                "id" : "obj-30",

                                "outlettype" : [ "" ],

                                "patching_rect" : [ 11.0, 7.0, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                "numinlets" : 0,

                                "comment" : "",

                                "index" : 1

                                "maxclass" : "outlet",

                                "numoutlets" : 0,

                                "id" : "obj-31",

                                "patching_rect" : [ 11.0, 133.123412999999999, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                "numinlets" : 1,

                                "id" : "obj-32",

                                "patching_rect" : [ 49.5, 133.123412999999999, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                "index" : 2

                    "lines" : [                         {

                            "patchline" :                             {

                                "source" : [ "obj-81", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-80", 0 ],

                                "order" : 1

                                "destination" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],

                                "midpoints" : [ 20.5, 62.811691000000003, 59.0, 62.811691000000003 ],

                                "order" : 0

                                "source" : [ "obj-80", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-79", 0 ]

                                "source" : [ "obj-79", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-31", 0 ]

                                "source" : [ "obj-30", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-81", 0 ]

                                "source" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-32", 0 ]

                "saved_object_attributes" :                 {

                    "globalpatchername" : "",

                    "tags" : ""

                "text" : "p update",

                "id" : "obj-29",

                "outlettype" : [ "clear" ],

                "patching_rect" : [ 217.050725853390077, 376.544982000000005, 57.0, 22.0 ],

                    "rect" : [ 660.0, 340.0, 292.0, 452.0 ],

                                "text" : "prepend append",

                                "patching_rect" : [ 29.0, 160.295470999999992, 98.0, 22.0 ],

                                "text" : "t clear",

                                "outlettype" : [ "clear" ],

                                "patching_rect" : [ 56.0, 134.327025999999989, 43.0, 22.0 ],

                                "text" : "iter",

                                "patching_rect" : [ 29.0, 134.327025999999989, 27.0, 22.0 ],

                                "text" : "route port",

                                "id" : "obj-29",

                                "outlettype" : [ "", "" ],

                                "patching_rect" : [ 29.0, 109.200683999999995, 62.0, 22.0 ],

                                "text" : "serial",

                                "id" : "obj-7",

                                "outlettype" : [ "int", "" ],

                                "patching_rect" : [ 9.0, 87.0, 39.0, 22.0 ],

                                "text" : "t print",

                                "id" : "obj-8",

                                "outlettype" : [ "print" ],

                                "patching_rect" : [ 9.0, 63.0, 41.0, 22.0 ],

                                "id" : "obj-23",

                                "patching_rect" : [ 9.0, 6.0, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                "id" : "obj-26",

                                "patching_rect" : [ 29.0, 195.295470999999992, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                "source" : [ "obj-8", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-7", 0 ]

                                "source" : [ "obj-7", 1 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-29", 0 ]

                                "source" : [ "obj-4", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-8", 0 ]

                                "source" : [ "obj-32", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-26", 0 ],

                                "midpoints" : [ 38.5, 180.0, 38.5, 180.0 ]

                                "source" : [ "obj-31", 0 ],

                                "midpoints" : [ 65.5, 156.0, 15.0, 156.0, 15.0, 192.0, 38.5, 192.0 ]

                                "source" : [ "obj-29", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-31", 0 ],

                                "midpoints" : [ 38.5, 130.857178000000005, 65.5, 130.857178000000005 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-30", 0 ],

                                "source" : [ "obj-23", 0 ],

                                "destination" : [ "obj-4", 0 ]

                "maxclass" : "comment",

                "text" : "update serial ports",

                "linecount" : 3,

                "presentation_rect" : [ 111.840491999999998, 118.019713999999993, 177.0, 31.0 ],

                "textjustification" : 1,

                "numoutlets" : 0,

                "textcolor" : [ 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-33",

                "fontsize" : 18.0,

                "presentation" : 1,

                "fontname" : "Avenir Book",

                "patching_rect" : [ 231.772557853390083, 250.952452999999991, 75.0, 80.0 ],

                "text" : "prepend port",

                "id" : "obj-5",

How to convert integers to ascii when the number of items is more then 256?